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The Obama administration licensed a third company to broadly sell U.S. natural gas overseas on Wednesday, renewing fears that widespread exports of America’s bounty could spike domestic prices for the fossil fuel. In conditionally approving exports from a $2 billion facility in Lake Charles, La., th...

Commuters, homeowners, and appliance manufacturers – now is the time to make new energy efficiency investments and claim tax credits for improvements you made in 2012. On January 2, 2013, the American Tax Payer Relief Act of 2012 was signed into law, extending many expired tax credits until the end...

E1 Corporation and SN Energy had been supplying about 550 tons of LPG a month on average. E1 Corporation and SN Energy have suspended supply of LPG to the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea for the last 4 months. These companies had been supplying LPG to the industrial complex for about 10 ye...

KOSEP to establish a SPC to produce and sell industrial material minerals. Korea South East Power (KOSEP, President: Jang Do-soo) will establish a special purpose company (SPC) to produce and sell various industrial material minerals using coal cinders generated by coal-fired power plant. KOSEP will...

Source: Bloomberg The Obama administration’s plan to tighten regulation of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas on public land may cost more than 20 times U.S. estimates, energy companies and local governments said. EOG Resources Inc. (EOG), the top oil producer in a Texas shale formation, and offic...

Source: World-nuclear-news Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers have enabled the first ever LNG delivery via the Northern Sea Route from Norway to Japan, where it will go towards replacing generation lost from shut down nuclear reactors. The Ob River carrier took Gazprom fuel from Hammerfest in Norwa...

It reduces fuel costs for cooling and heating…realizes low carbon and green growth. The DMZ Museum in Gangwon-do saved fuel costs by 16.509 million won by using geothermal energy for its cooling system in July and August this year compared to the same period last year. The Museum reduced its energy...

Source: The Telegraph If Citigroup is right, Saudi Arabia will cease to be an oil exporter by 2030, far sooner than previously thought. A 150-page report by Heidy Rehman on the Saudi petrochemical industry should be sober reading for those who think that shale oil and gas have solved our global ener...

On Aug. 15, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his government’s abandonment of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the innovative attempt to reverse the economic arrangement of oil extraction in the Amazon by keeping the oil in the soil in exchange for international assistance. His words that eveni...

H.R. 6082, the so-called “Congressional Replacement of President Obama’s Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan,” passed the House on July 25 by a margin of 253 to 170. In response to this disappointing vote, Environment America’s Preservation Advocate Nancy Pyne, issued the foll...

Source: EcoWatch Here’s a memo to the technocrats, pundits, environmental organizations and foundations that believe corporate collaborations and market-based solutions are the key to solving the critical environmental problems facing us. Why are you so afraid of fighting for what we really want—a f...

Source: New York Times Late in its review process, New York state regulators are now considering an examination of the potential public health effects of hydraulic fracturing as part of its review of the controversial natural gas drilling process. What this means to the state’s timetable for decidin...

By now, if you have any interest in water, energy, international security and politics, climate change, environmental impacts on small communities, or any number of other issues of the day, you have seen, heard, or read something about “fracking” — the shorthand name for the proces...

The use of one precious fluid — water — to recover another — oil — chafes in dry country. Rivers and groundwater are receding in Texas for lack of rain and over-pumping just when the demand for water in new oil and gas fields is growing. Now one exploration and production company in San Antonio is f...

Sunlight and mirrors could extract gas from water and pave way for the expansion of clean hydrogen energy Hydrogen could be more widely used as a clean, zero-carbon technology, thanks to a new technology that scientists are calling the “Holy Grail” of a sustainable hydrogen economy. The radically ne...

College football is just around the corner. I spent my formidable years in the South, where college football is more of a religion than a sport. On game day, more than 100,000 fans crammed themselves into the stadium of my alma mater to cheer on the home team. This type of enthusiasm makes an obviou...

In blackjack, doubling down is a high-risk, high-reward move. If you think you can win, based on the first two cards dealt, you bet 100 percent more — but you also pay for the privilege by agreeing to take one, and only one, additional card. Doubling down is also the semi-official metaphor of Presid...

Source: Huffington Post Earlier this week, a coalition of public health, wildlife, and conservation organizations filed a Clean Water Act lawsuit in an effort to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rule regarding the use of chemical oil dispersants. In particular, the su...

Oil Drilling is always a controversial one to talk about. There are two biggest issues for oil drilling. Big oil companies and environmentalists already went beyond arguing. 1. Arctic Oil Drilling - Greenpeace has been protesting against arctic drilling of Shell. It looks like Greenpeace has a lot o...